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The National Theater was a Yiddish theatre at the southwest corner of Second Avenue (Chrystie) and Houston Street in the Yiddish Theater District in Manhattan, New York City, United States.[1] When first built it was leased to Boris Thomashefsky and Julius Adler.[2]

The theatre was one of the many designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb, and seated 1,900 when it was opened on 6 May 1913. It was built as one of a pair of theatres, with the Crown Theater, seating 963, on the upper level. Both theatres closed in 1941, re-opened in 1951 as a pair of cinemas (the National Theater and the Roosevelt Theater), and were demolished in 1959.[2]

References

  1. ^ Stein, Joshua David (26 January 2007). "See the Lower East Side: If Not Now, When?". Gridskipper. Retrieved 27 March 2011.
  2. ^ a b "National Theatre & Roosevelt Theatre". Cinema Treasures. Retrieved 27 March 2011.

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